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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/06-1

Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/06-9

Ten Years and One Broken Promise Later, Guantanamo Remains
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/09-4

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Guantanamo detainees still endure harsh prison conditions

''You don t walk, you don t budge, you don t talk. It s forbidden.'' That s not to mention the sleep deprivation, with neon lights blazing 24 hours a day and air conditioning kept at bone chilling temperatures.

http://bit.ly/w80P6V



My Guantánamo Nightmare

By LAKHDAR BOUMEDIENE

I went on a hunger strike for two years because no one would tell me why I was being imprisoned. Twice each day my captors would shove a tube up my nose, down my throat and into my stomach so they could pour food into me. It was excruciating.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30198.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Guantanamo detainees? bleak future

CNN

01/08/12

Ten years after the arrival of the first prisoners captured by U.S. forces after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will likely be in business for many more years, perhaps decades, to come, analysts say. For the 171 detainees still there, the future is bleak. GITMO, as the detention facility is commonly known, would have been emptied two years ago under a proposal introduced by President Barack Obama...

http://tinyurl.com/7lm4rxj



A tired obsession with military detention plagues American politics

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

01/06/12

Before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, there were only two ways of holding prisoners, either they were prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, or they were criminal suspects, to be charged and subjected to federal court trials. That all changed when the administration of George W. Bush threw out the Geneva Conventions, equated the Taliban with al-Qaeda, and decided to hold both soldiers and terror suspects as 'illegal enemy combatants' who could be imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial, and with no rights whatsoever...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1201c.asp



The evil of indefinite detention and those wanting to de-prioritize it

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/08/12

As we head into Election Year, there is an increasingly common, bizarre and self-evidently repellent tactic being employed by some Democratic partisans against those of us who insist that issues like indefinite detention (along with ongoing killing of civilians in the Muslim world) merit high priority. The argument is that to place emphasis on such issues is to harm President Obama ...

http://bit.ly/wvGIfV


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Ten Years of Guantanamo: What Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Knew

Jason Leopold, Truthout: To mark the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison to house ''war on terror'' detainees captured after 9/11, Truthout will republish a handful of exclusive reports by Jason Leopold about the facility.

http://www.truth-out.org/ten-years-guantanamo-what-bush-cheney-and-rumsfeld-knew/1326049233



Ten Years of Guantanamo: One of the Prison s First Detainees Breaks His Silence

Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''Last year, one of the first detainees sent to Guantanamo when the prison facility opened in January 2002, broke his silence and spoke to Truthout about the brutal physical and psychological torture he suffered during the five years he was imprisoned.''

http://www.truth-out.org/exclusive-an-interview-with-former-guantanamo-detainee-david-hicks67818



Guantanamo: Ten Years Too Many

Peter Weiss, Truthout: ''Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was the first legal organization to perceive the danger which the legal culture of Gitmo posed to the idea of justice and to take on cases on behalf of detainees.... About 600 detainees have been released and sent to their home countries or other countries willing to accept them, partly as a result of CCR attorneys scouring the world for such countries.''

http://www.truth-out.org/guantanamo-ten-years-too-many/1326134485



''It Was a Sunny Day''

Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''A former Guantanamo guard ... reflects on a decade of lawlessness.... Neely did not know it then, nor did the public, but a vast majority of the prisoners who populated Guantanamo during the prison s first year in operation were innocent bystanders sold to US forces for hefty bounty payments or were captured and sent to Guantanamo because they wore the same style Casio watch that members of al-Qaeda wore.''

http://www.truth-out.org/it-was-sunny-day/1326292528

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Sign our global petition calling on President Obama to take action to close Guantánamo by ending indefinite detention. It s been ten years too long.

http://webmail.amnesty.org.uk/_act/link.php?mId=J8210924017288875034746193815&tId=54882369



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